Quotes from Brandon Sanderson

This isn't your prison. This is mine.

To be honest, 'arrogant' doesn't feel like quite the right word. It's not specific enough." "And what would be the right word, then?" "I don't know. 'Errorgant,' perhaps." Jasnah raised a skeptical eyebrow. "It means to be twice as certain as someone who is merely arrogant," Shallan said, "while possessing only one-tenth the requisite facts.

Life, Vin said. You said that the only reason to create something was so that you could destroy it.

When you've got an arrow stuck in you, it's sometimes best to just yank it out in one pull.

She took a deep breath and let herself become someone else. An imitation of herself who was calm, even in a situation like this. It was a crude forgery, just a trick of the mind, but it worked.

Lógicamente inconsistente. Obviamente incierto.

What would it take?" she asked. "For you to see a miracle instead of a coincidence?" "It would take a miracle, obviously," Silence said, picking up her knife. "Instead of just a coincidence.

Great success often depends on being able to distinguish between the impossible and the improbable.

It was a shallow thing, this acceptance, but sometimes even shallow things feel important.

Time moves like a mountain. It comes so slowly that most don't even notice its passing. It will, however, crush thise who don't move before it.

Why was it that scientists were so excited to discover facts that farmers had known for generations and generations?

El fracaso es la medida de una vida bien llevada. Y la única forma de vivir sin fracaso es no servir de nada a nadie.

It was just that…well, she had trouble explaining it, even to herself. Ham's innocent gesture made her want to squirm. It seemed to her that people shouldn't be so casual with the way that they touched others.

They didn't speak as the sun slowly sank before them. Why was it most colorful when it was about to vanish for the night? Was it angry at being forced belong the horizon? Or was it a showman, giving a performance before retiring?

That's the credit she had given to religion: lies that made people feel better.

The tree slowly fell over, playing dead.

Envejecer era en realidad sufrir la traición definitiva, la del propio cuerpo contra uno mismo.

Make friends with physicists and mathematicians, writers. It pays off.)

I can see that the variety of humankind is what gives you strength. Your ability to change your minds, to go against what you once thought, can be a great advantage.

Yes, very brave," Shallan said. "We humans are known to bite." "Ha ha. Yes, bite. And break your oaths and murder your spren. Ha ha.

He certainly was a strange Voidbringer. Come to think of it, she'd never seen him act the least bit interested in consuming someone's soul. Maybe he was a vegetarian?

I mixed with ordinary people about the same way that a bucket of paint mixed with a bag of gerbils.

It was nice to be reminded that, for all their differences, there were occasional things that she and Jasnah shared. She just wished that ignorance weren't at the top of the list.

I am growing so very tired.